Self-Confidence
Self-confidence is very important for success. It’s something you can build up by thinking about things in a positive way. In everyday life, we often need confidence to handle different situations. Self-confidence is essential for everyone, even though the amount of confidence people have can vary. People who lack confidence often face difficulties in life.
To do anything, we need some confidence. Confidence can be improved through experience and practice. The more you try things, the more confident you’ll become.
People who are not confident in what they do can have a lot of awkward moments. They may try to improve their confidence using different methods, but without the right information and techniques, they might fail and feel discouraged.
If you have low self-esteem, I’ve chosen some techniques that can help you build your confidence
1. Be Competent
The secret to having a good Self-Confidence level is to believe in yourself. If you want to be confident then you have to do a lot of practice. After a lot of practice, we will automatically feel confident.
Suppose if you want to develop public speaking then you must believe in yourself that you can do it. Then comes the practice part, so with the practice we can achieve Self-Confidence.
So practice is the key feature of making someone confident. Never ignore the importance of practice. It is rightly said that “practice makes a person perfect”. So keep on doing practice.
The practice will make you competent. Competency comes with knowledge and practice. If you are competent, you will feel confident.
“Accept who you are; and revel in it.” ~ Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
2. Believe in yourself to enhance your confidence
The main hurdle in achieving success in any field is a lack of belief in ourselves. Belief channelizes all our energy in a direction.
Belief doesn’t know about right and wrong so be careful what you believe. If someone believes some negativity then negative will happen with him. So always believe in positivity. The positive belief results in positive.
It is rightly said that you become what you believe. So first you start to believe in yourself that you can do anything in life. The minute you start believing in yourself you feel a kind of positive energy in yourself that will enhance your Self-Confidence.
“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.” ~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end up really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
3. Stop Comparing yourself to others
One of the reasons for our lack of Self-confidence is our habit of comparing ourselves with others. The comparisons make our ability unrecognizable in our mind which disturbs our belief system. It also takes away our happiness from life and we feel a lack of confidence.
Therefore we should stop comparing ourselves with others and start believing in ourselves. It is one of the best ways to boost your confidence.
“Comparison is the death of joy.” ~ Mark Twain
4. Accept Criticism to enhance your confidence
The criticism is good most of the time. It gives us Self-Confidence, and the scope for improvement if we adopt it. There are people out there whose only job is to criticize others.
So most of the times we should ignore it and move towards our goal. Criticism is the building block of the pillar of success. The more criticised person is the more successful. So it is a positive force for those who take it for improvement and success.
It also give us various other frame of reference for our thinking process. Sometimes after after criticism we know some other path for doing some work. It actually gives us a new roadmap for our improvement. Therefore criticism is a good confidence builder. Confidence is nothing but an ability to face criticism.
So take criticism with open heart and mind and you will find a lot of scope for improvement and success. Most of the successful person have taken all the criticism and got all the successes of the world. So never ignore the power of criticism.
“Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”~ Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
5. Be Calm and Happy to enhance your Self-confidence
“A samurai must remain calm at all times even in the face of danger.”~ Chris Bradford, The Way of the Sword
The calm mind gives us a lot of dimension for thinking and development. It relaxes our nerves due to that it can work in a better and flexible way. When we have a calm mind we automatically feel happy. So happiness is the by-product of having a peaceful and calm state of mind.
These two can enhance our confidence level at a certain level because we know that anything can be achieved with peace of mind. I know one of my friends who faced a lot of problems simultaneously but he never loses his calm and he solved all his problems gradually.
So if you have calm mind you can use your mind in different dimensions and can find a solution for every problem.
“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”~ Carlos Castaneda
Nowadays it is very difficult to have a calm mind because of certain conditions like job insecurity, life and other issues. People tend to have a lot of mental pressure and they find themselves unable to do anything positive in their life. So in such conditions achieving a calm mind and positive state of mind may be very difficult. But with a certain practice, we can have calm and peace of mind. We just have to believe in ourselves and do the needful.
6. Have Patience
Patience is the key to achieving anything in life. It provides us with a lot of energy to do things continuously until we get it. But it is very rare in today’s modern society. We have various time-bound jobs to perform which makes us less patient. The competition is increasing regularly which is the main reason behind the lack of patience.
Patience is the key to achieving success in any part of life. There are several factors that discourage us to do any further effort, but if we have patience we can make another try and can succeed.
So achieving confidence is also depends on being patience. With patience, we can withstand the above-mentioned techniques and can have confidence.
So by following these techniques we can certainly achieve confidence. The confidence is the virtue of life which makes our life full and happier. These steps are the way to achieve happiness in life also.
So wake up and achieve it.
All the best!!!
